New Orleans Saints wide receiver Michael Thomas pulled out the old Joe Horn touchdown celebration after burning Los Angeles Rams cornerback Marcus Peters for a score on Sunday. Pretty much everyone around the football world lost their mind when Thomas picked up a cell phone and pretended to call someone. Horn himself was impressed. Apparently, the list of people impressed by the amazing celebration doesn't include former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick. "It's way too much. It's way too much," Vick told TMZ Sports. "Nah, nah, nah. No cell phones. We don't want to corrupt the game like that."... [Read More]

A turbulent election season that tested President Donald Trump's slash-and-burn political style against the strength of the Democratic resistance comes to a close as Americans cast ballots in the first national election of the Trump era. Anxious Republicans privately expressed confidence in their... [Read More]

Republican and Democrat incumbents in York County were re-elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm November elections, despite a record number of challengers on the ballot. [Read More]

The conservative Republican won a second term on Tuesday in a tight race, holding off a charismatic Democratic congressman from El Paso who hoped to ride a wave of liberal energy to an upset victory. [Read More]

The law made Louisiana one of two states that allowed a non-unanimous jury in felony trials. Louisiana voters during Tuesday's midterm elections approved Amendment 2, eliminating a Jim Crow law that made Louisiana one of two states allowing non-unanimous juries in felony trials. In the late 19th century, Louisiana was faced with a new constitutional requirement, after the passage of the US Constitution's 14th Amendment, that forced the state to include black people in juries. Since Louisiana required juries to reach unanimous decisions, as is standard, this meant a single black person on the jury would have a lot... [Read More]

The energy and outrage of the Democratic resistance faced off against the brute strength of President Donald Trump's GOP on Tuesday as voters across America decided whether Democrats should control at least one chamber of Congress for the first time in the Trump era.Fundraising, polls and history were not on the president's side. But two years after an election that proved polls and prognosticators wrong, an air of uncertainty... [Read More]

The energy and outrage of the Democratic resistance faced off against the brute strength of President Donald Trump's GOP on Tuesday as voters across America decided whether Democrats should control at least one chamber of Congress for the first time in the Trump era.Fundraising, polls and history were not on the president's side. But two years after an election that proved polls and prognosticators wrong, an air of uncertainty... [Read More]

U.S. voters on Tuesday went to the polls in congressional elections for all 435 seats of the House of Representatives. The Democratic Party needs to pick up 23 seats to wrest control of the chamber from the Republican Party. [Read More]

The Latest on elections to the U.S. House of Representatives (all times local):9:20 p.m.Democrat Ayanna Pressley has completed her quest to become Massachusetts' first black woman elected to Congress.Pressley is also the first African-American to serve on the Boston City Council. She sailed through Tuesday's general election to Congress unopposed, two months after unseating 10-term Rep. Michael Capuano in... [Read More]